News Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all

[Admin]

A mixup at Nvidia resulted in someone receiving an RTX 5080 graphics card with the words ‘RTX 5090’ etched on the cooler.

Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all : Read more

 

[cp0x]

This is normal when a new release happens: The first trickle of cards that hit retail are often the ones being built pretty much by hand in small quantities by the manufacturers as they perfect their build and automation processes. Sometimes you'll get beta software on the cards, and sometimes you even get pre-prod hardware (beta versions of the chips) as the manufacturers clear their benches. It's one of the reasons why I usually wait a few months before considering buying a newly released GPU, because I've gotten some pre-prod hardware in the past, and those usually need more work over their lifetimes to keep them running. (Although to be fair, I've still had good experiences overall, even with the beta hardware. It's the hand-built aspects that tend to need to get repaired over time, e.g. the pads, the grease, ...)

 

[King_V]

Kinda neat - and I'm hoping that a simple weighing of the card would be enough to determine which cooler it has.

 

[The Beav]

Can't believe anyone buys founders editions after what they did with the 30 series... All Ti versions had the same cooling as regular versions, my 3080 ti ran at 110°C and being throttled and Nvidia kept saying that's within spec.... Even tho the 3080, 3070, and 3090 all ran much cooler. Oh and fixing it yourself voids the warranty..... And they won't fix it for you either.

And no it wasn't an issue with my case, google it, it was every 3080 ti.

I guess I can finally repaste and repad it myself now that the warranty is done heh.

Next card will def be AMD tho that's for sure.